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Below you can find a list of our upcoming training courses, qualifications and events. You can also view any resources (including blogs, guidance and articles). You can use the filter on the left to search for a specific type or interest for example. 

Winning a National Fundraising Award has given me renewed drive to achieve more

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Suzie Rees won the Fundraiser of the Year award at last year’s National Fundraising Awards. She explains how winning the award felt like external validation for both herself and her charity.

How Chartered status will help transform our profession

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The Institute of Fundraising’s Alex Xavier looks at how the membership body is looking to create new traditions with its Charter, and what Chartered Status will mean for the fundraising profession.

Strong customer authentication: keeping you up to date

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Paul Rodgers gives the latest update in this blog on Strong Customer Authentication and how these changes will impact fundraisers and charities.

Is the fundraising statement in your annual report compliant with the law?

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Lord Toby Harris, Chair of the Fundraising Regulator, outlines some key areas that charities should ensure are included in their annual reports' fundraising statements.

What is wrong with funders?

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Harriet Stranks, Director of Grants at Lloyds Bank Foundation, asks what is wrong with funders, and looks at why this is not a simple problem with a simple solution.

Winning the National Fundraising Award made me realise that I had achieved a massive success

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Helen Maguire won the Rising Star award at last year’s National Fundraising Awards. In this blog she explains what winning the award meant to her, and how winning has impacted her career.

Five tips to stop your funding proposal from ending up in the bin

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David Burgess, Director of Apollo Fundraising, offers five observations in this blog that can stop your funding proposal from ending up in the ‘no’ pile.

The rise of the remote fundraiser

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The number of home-based fundraising roles posted on CharityJob has risen significantly since 2017, says Stephanie Dotto, as more charities and employees are realising the wide range of benefits of re...

LGBT+ history month: Inclusion policies fail when they remain just policies

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To mark LGBT+ History Month, Lucy Caldicott says that the act of opening up space for honest conversations amongst staff will create a more inclusive and healthy environment.

Could we make grant reporting fun?

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Emily Dyson-Hawkes, Head of Communications at the Institute for Voluntary Action Research, takes a look in this blog at principles for funders to adopt that help to ease the burden of grant reporting.

My experiences of being a RAISE mentor

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Emma Smallwood, Development Manager at The Lowry, answers five questions about her experiences of being a mentor for the RAISE programme, and says why she would recommend others to get involved.

Are will-writing firms wrong in their reporting of money raised for charity?

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Legacy consultant Richard Radcliffe and Jon Brewer, founder of Bequeathed, look at the two sides of the question of whether will-writing firms are correct in how they report how much money has been ra...

Fundraising for impact: what the sector thinks

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Following the publication of the Fundraising for Impact report last May, Daniel Chan, Senior Manager at PwC, looks at the views of stakeholders and addresses return on experience, as well as looking t...

Why good fundraisers are already mental health champions

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Mark Rowland, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation, explains why fundraisers could be at the forefront of leading the sector in creating mentally healthy organisations.

In search of the supporter experience - the Holy Grail of fundraising

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Mark Dibden from Signal says that charities need to ask more of their data to turn it into genuine, actionable insight that fundraising teams and agencies can mobilise behind to grow long-term value.

The climate crisis: five shifts the sector needs to make in response

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The climate emergency is already upon us. Save the Children’s Kirsty McNeill discusses five shifts the sector needs to make in response.

The direct marketing code of practice: five things fundraisers need to know

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The Information Commissioner’s Office announced this week a consultation on an updated Direct Marketing Code of Conduct. Daniel Fluskey, Head of Policy and External Affairs at the Chartered Institute,...

How to set the tone for an inclusive culture

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Lucy Caldicott, Founder of ChangeOut, reflects in this blog on the top things for senior leaders to think about when ensuring that their organisation maintains an inclusive culture.

New year, new decade: ten Change Collective resolutions for equality, diversity and inclusion

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Elizabeth Balgobin, Interim Head of EDI at the Institute of Fundraising, gives her top ten tips for fundraisers and senior leaders on how to change fundraising into the equal, diverse and inclusive en...

Innovation: is it growth or value led?

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What does ‘innovation’ really mean and what can the fundraising sector learn from inspiring innovators elsewhere? Adam Bryan, Director of Partnerships & Innovation at the Chartered Institute of Fundra...